Dataset of medicinal plants used by the traditional medicine practitioners to treat malaria and HIV/AIDS in the district of Meconta, northern Mozambique

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The folder named Database-Ethnopharmacological study contains 8 files. The files named 1-Demographic data AND Perceptions about Malaria in Meconta District-MOZ,2022 and 2-Demographic data AND Perceptions about HIV-AIDSin Meconta District-MOZ,2022 contain socio-demographic details of the traditional medicine practitioners and their perceptions about malaria and HIV/AIDS, such as their age, gender, marital status, level of education, ethnicity, years of experience, area of study, type of disease, causes, symptons and signs, respectively. The files named 3-Medicinal plants used to treat Malaria in the Meconta district-MOZ,2022 and 4-Medicinal plants used to treat HIV-AIDS in the Meconta district-MOZ,2022 contain information about medicinal plants used to treat malaria and HIV/AIDS, such as their family, scientific name, local name, area of collection, therapeutic indication, the parts of the plant used to prepare the remedies, mode of preparation, dosage, mode of administration, adverse effect, other traditional use, mixed plants to prepare the remedies and their frequency of citation, respectively. The file named 5-Medicinal plant and RFC, FL, UV and ICF contains medicinal plants used by traditional medicine practitioners to treat Malaria and HIV/AIDS and their relative frequency of citation (RFC), fidelity level (FL), Use Value (UV) and Informant Consensus Factory (ICF). And there is a consent form, a questionnaire and a figure from the study area. Some files have their respective English version and Portuguese version.

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STUDY AREA This study was conducted in Meconta district, located in Nampula province in north-eastern Mozambique (figure 1-Study area), in July 2022. ETHICAL GUIDELINES The study was approved by the scientific committee from the Lúrio University, situated in Nampula Province and was authorized by the local authorities. And, with the support of the local leaders and the Association of Traditional Healers of Mozambique (AMETRAMO), 28 traditional medicine practitioners accepted to participate in the study. And, the traditional medicine practitioners were informed about the aim of the study and the methodology which were being followed. And prior informed consents were obtained before starting the interviews. DATA COLLECTION The methods used to collect information in the field were interviews and observations. The interviews were conducted with a semi-structured questionnaire which was developed for this study, and the questionnaire was compound by five parts. The first part contained information about their age, gender, marital status, education level, ethnicity, study area and years of experience. The second part had information about knowledge of malaria such as its cause, symptoms and signs. The third part had information about plants used to treat malaria such as their vernacular name, pharmacological activity, the parts of plant used to prepare remedies, mode of preparation, dosage, mode of administration, adverse effects, other traditional uses and citation. The fourth part contained information about knowledge of HIV/AIDS such as its cause, symptoms and signs. Finally, the fifth part had information about plants used to treat HIV/AIDS such as their vernacular name, pharmacology activity, the parts of the plant used to prepare remedies, mode of preparation, dosage, mode of administration, adverse effects, other traditional uses and citation. This questionnaire was individually applied to the traditional medicine practitioner to register the information described above. The interview was conducted by the researchers and local language was used whenever required by the researchers, who were fluent. After the interview, some traditional medicine practitioners were selected according to the answers to indicate the plants mentioned using the questionnaire. And under the supervision of traditional medicine practitioners, the plant specimens were collected in order to produce voucher specimens and deposit in the herbarium.  The species of the plants were identified scientifically at the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM), in Maputo province. DATA ANALYSIS The data were entered into a database and grouped according to their similarities and analyzed in SPSS version 20.0 and Excel 2007 software to calculate the relative frequency of citation (RFC), fidelity level (FL), Use Value (UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF) and other descriptive statistics.

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