A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

Known in Africa as “the mother of palliative care,” she established a model for pain management and end-of-life care.

In a small home in Uganda's capital, Jane Mwesige, a nurse with a hospice that has transformed African end-of-life care, ...

Dr Anne Merriman, Liverpudlian nun who became ‘the mother of palliative care in Africa’ Her recipe for cheap oral morphine was ‘as easy as making coffee, just four ingredients’ and cost no ...

Dr Anne Merriman, a visionary humanitarian who introduced palliative care to Uganda and much of Africa, has died at the age of 90. Widely regarded as the “mother of palliative care in Africa ...

Dr Anne Merriman, the founder of Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) and a global pioneer of palliative care, has died at the age of 90.

The death has taken place in Uganda of an Irish-educated doctor renowned for introducing palliative care to Africa. Dr Anne Merriman had celebrated her 90th birthday only last week, receiving ...

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To say Anne Merriman has led a remarkable life is an understatement. Her list of achievements is astonishing. Dr Anne trained as a doctor, then spent two decades as a nun, before switching her ...

Anne taught us to be real human beings by expressing ourselves genuinely.” From the start, Merriman’s vision was “Palliative care for all in need in Africa”—and by Africans, too.