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"'Dr Anne's simple but ingenious formula for compounding morphine solutions not only revolutionised how we treat pain in Uganda, but it also transformed how we care for patients across Africa. She exemplifies the many phrases she taught us at Hospice Africa Uganda ... ""attending to detail"" ... ""fire in the belly"" ... ""going the extra mile"". This is just who she is.' Dr Eddie Mwebesa 'Anne has been the single most motivating person I've ever met in my life. If you'd forgotten your ""why"", she'd remind you of your purpose. She turned on a light that at that time was so close to being turned off forever. I could have floated through my career doing far less good. I wanted to chase that light. She provided the model on which I wanted to base myself and my practice.' Dr Ged Faulks, UK 'Anne was and remains an inspiration as I am called to service in palliative care. Only when I began full-time hospice work did I realise she had sowed early seeds within me. I am eternally grateful and feel blessed that our paths converged at pivotal points in my life, both personal and professional.' Dr Chong Poh Heng, Medical Director, HCA Hospice Care, Singapore 'Against all of the odds, Anne succeeded here in Uganda. Her determination, persistence and persuasion has enabled palliative care to be integrated into the Ugandan health care system.Anne's love and care for her patients goes beyond doctor/patient responsibilities. The seeds she planted in 1993 are flourishing and palliative care is here to stay.' Rose Kiwanuka, Uganda 'Anne was not afraid to step on people's toes and push for what she saw needed to get done to get hospice care in Singapore off the ground. Without Anne there would be no palliative care in Singapore. Definitely no oral morphine in Africa without Anne either.' Nurse Leekiang Chua, Singapore 'Anne has a strong faith and really knows who the master is of all storms. She is a fighter, never giving up, and always smiles under any circumstance.' Martha Rabwoni, Uganda 'We faced many challenges when we began. I remember Anne saying. ""We need to take the high road! We need to rise above the situation and act differently - that's what makes all the difference in palliative care. The spirit of how we work."" Anne imbued the ethos into everything she did. She had the biggest heart for people suffering and wanted to do everything she could to help.' Fazal Mbaraka 'I first met Anne in March 1954, when we were both setting out on the extraordinary adventure of Missionary life. Perhaps what never changed despite our roads diverging and reconnecting was Anne's deep compassion combined with a mischievous humour, with which she met all situations. She became undefeatable and remains so, consistent in commitment, loving in friendship and with her never changing cheeky smile, ""a chink of the Grandeur of God"". I'm proud to be one of her really old but ever young friends.' Sr Dr Brigid Corrigan, MMM"

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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. She has campaigned to make affordable oral morphine widely available. In 1993, Dr. Merriman founded Hospice Africa Uganda. Under Anne Merriman's guidance, this introduced a model system of terminal care customized to developing countries with limited resources. From Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) the Palliative Care Association of Uganda and was founded and Anne was the founding Vice President. On a continent-wide basis, she is a founder member of the African Palliative Care Association.Awards and degreesNominated for Nobel Peace Prize, 2014, Founder and Director of Policy and Initiator (2000) and leader of International Programmes for 20 years, Hospice Africa Uganda; Honorary Teaching Fellow, International Observatory on End of Life Care in the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University; Honorary Professor of Palliative Care at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda; Founder Member and the Founding Vice Chair of the Board of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (formed in 1999); Chair of Steering Committee of IHPCA and later Founder Member and the Founding Vice Chair of the Board of the African Palliative Care Association (formed in 2005); Board Member of Hospice Africa UK and Hospice Africa; Past Board Member of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC); VicePresident for East Africa of the African Organisations for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC); MBE: Member of British Empire, honorary for contribution to health in Uganda; Irish Presidential award recipient for bringing peace to suffering in Africa. Autumn received a MA in conflict resolution at the University of Bradford, UK (2009); she returned home to the Tri-Cities, WA, US, and worked for over five years as an analyst for a nonprofit mediation organization that resolved complex safety, health, environmental and related retaliatory issues at the Hanford nuclear site. In 2008 she volunteered with HAU and helped Anne write Audacity to Love, which provides an explanation and early history of palliative care in Africa. In 2014, she helped write Anne's Nobel Peace Price nomination. In 2017, she spent a year with Anne as an assistant/advisor and started working on this book.

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