GHV partnered with Save the Children to produce a briefing regarding Maternal Mortality Rates (MMR). Every woman deserves the right to give birth safely and with dignity. Efforts to reduce maternal and infant mortality are integral to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but progress has stagnated in recent years. Maternal mortality rates (MMR) have plateaued in numerous countries and, troublingly, they are on the rise in others – a woman1 dies from complications due to pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes. At the global level almost all the progress achieved in maternal mortality had occurred by 2015 and has stagnated since then. The global MMR had already fallen from 339 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births to 227 by 2015, but has remained at 223 between 2016 and 2020 – far away from reaching the UN goal of 70 by 2030. Nearly two million babies are stillborn every year and never take their first breath. Pregnancy and childbirth continue to pose a silent emergency for countless women and newborns worldwide, with a staggering 4.5 million maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths annually. That is equivalent to one loss every 7 seconds.2 Pregnancy and childbirth remain a silent emergency, but we have solutions and must fund and implement them in marginalized areas and among underserved populations.