Anne Merriman, MBE, MCommH, FRCPI, FRCP (born 1935 in Liverpool, England) is a British doctor, known for her pioneering work and influential research into palliative care in developing countries in Africa.
Under Anne Merriman's guidance, this introduced a model system of terminal care customized to developing countries with limited resources.
Over the first decade of her post-graduate career, she completed three two-year stints in three Medical Missionaries of Mary hospitals in southeast Nigeria.
[8] Audacity to Love is the chronicle of Merriman's work in bringing to life her vision of making affordable pain relief to dying patients throughout the poorest countries of Africa.
In this book, Merriman writes of those with whom she has worked, as well as of patients, lessons learned and support received in setting up Hospice Africa.
[19] Presently, Merriman heads Hospice Africa's International Programs, supporting new initiatives in Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Sudan and Rwanda, and more recently training, initiators from 11 Francophone countries to suit their different health service and needs.