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

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

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

Sue Anne Merriman Sue Anne Merriman was born Sue Anne Jones in Centralia, Illinois on June 20, 1933. Sue moved to Burlingame, California with her parents, Raymond Fonz Jones and Gladys Lund Jones, … ...

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.

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 had celebrated her 90th birthday only last week, receiving tributes from President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Dr Merriman, ...

Dr Anne Merriman, the former nun who made it her life’s work to bring effective palliative care to Africa. Producer: Ed Prendeville. Archive used ...

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

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 ...