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

Dr Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a former nun from Liverpool known as “the mother of palliative care in Africa”. She revolu­tionised end-of-life care in low-income countries by devising a ...

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 ...

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

Anne Merriman was born on May 13 1935 to Irish parents in Walton, north Liverpool, the third of four children, and educated at St Matthew’s Primary School and Broughton Hall High School.

Dr Anne Merriman (right) carries a baby during the Hospice Africa Uganda 30th anniversary celebrations in Makindye, Kampala in October 2023. Photo/Tonny Abet. A national and continental legacy.

These home visits, combining affordable medical care and spiritual support, are part of Mwesige's routine with Hospice Africa ...

When 4 year old Anne Merriman saw pictures of sick children in Africa she announced, “I’m going to Africa to care for the poorly children.” This brash, single mindedness never left her. She spent more ...

Liverpool-born Dr Anne Merriman MBE, 89, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her pioneering work in palliative care ...

Dr. Anne Merriman, 87, recalls a time in Uganda when people were “dying all over the place” in 1993, the height of the AIDS epidemic. Though she initially arrived in Africa with only three months’ ...

The Anne Merriman Hospice Africa Foundation is being launched on Sunday June 19th in the ground floor education and research centre at Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, ...