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 ...

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, 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 with local children in Uganda. Tue 24 Mar 2009 at 01:00 Even as a little girl, Anne Merriman knew that she wanted to work in the African missions.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...