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

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.