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

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The folder named Database-Ethnopharmacological study-Nampula Province-MOZAMBIQUE contains 8 files from three districts, and 3 folders (each one with particular data). The files named 1-Demographic data AND Perceptions about Malaria-Meconta, Murrupula, and Ribaue District,2022-2023 and 2-Demographic data AND Perceptions about HIVAIDS-Meconta, Murrupula, and Ribaue District,2022-2023 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 file named 3-Medicinal plants-malaria AND HIV-Meconta, Murrupula, and Ribaue district-2022-2023 contains 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. The file named 4-Medicinal plant and RFC, FL, UV and ICF-Meconta, Murrupula and Ribaue 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, a Visual-abstract-2024, and a figure from the study area. And, some files have their respective English version and Portuguese version. The folder named 1-Dataset-Meconta district-2022 contains 4 files of data from Meconta district. The folders 2-Dataset-Murrupula district-2023 and 3-Dataset-Ribaue district-2023 contain 3 files per folder from Murrupula and Ribaue districts.

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STUDY AREA This study was conducted in three districts of Nampula province such as Meconta, Murrupula, and Ribaue districts, located in north-eastern Mozambique (figure 1-Study area), in July 2022 (Meconta district), and August 2023 (Murrupula and Ribaue districts). Steps to reproduce the data ETHICAL GUIDELINES The study was approved by the scientific committee from Lúrio University, situated in Nampula Province and was authorized by the local authorities. And, it was supported by the local leaders and the Mozambican Association of Traditional Healers (AMETRAMO). The traditional medicine practitioners were informed about the aim of the study and the methodology to be followed, and prior informed consents were obtained before starting the interviews. And no traditional medicine practitioner was coerced to participate in the study. 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 consisted of 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. And the plant name has been checked with “World Flora Onlineʼ. 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 some descriptive statistics.

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