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 (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.

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 ...

These are the ingredients in Dr. Anne Merriman's recipe for liquid morphine. "It's easier than making a cake," says Merriman, a British palliative care specialist who founded Hospice Africa in Uganda ...

Dr Anne Merriman is a former Nobel prize nominee who founded a hospice. Comments. News. Tom Duffy. 11:37, 21 Apr 2020 Updated 12:08, 21 Apr 2020.

B y the mid-1980s, the Irish doctor Anne Merriman had seen enough in her then three-decade-long career to be distressed by how poorly modern medicine served people at the end of life—the blind ...

Food coloring, water, a preservative and a pound of morphine powder. These are the ingredients in Dr. Anne Merriman's recipe for liquid morphine. "It's easier than making a cake," says Merriman, a ...

Dr. Anne Merriman is determined to give the dying relief from pain in their last days. Food coloring, water, a preservative and a pound of morphine powder. These are the ingredients in Dr. Anne ...