Dataset of medicinal plants used by traditional healers in the treatment of malaria and HIV/AIDS in Meconta, Murrupula, and Ribaue districts, northern Mozambique

The folder named ‘1-Database-Ethnopharmacological investigation-Nampula Province-MOZAMBIQUE-Version 4’ contains 12 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). There is a consent form, a questionnaire, a Graphical Abstract-2025, and a ‘Figure1MapField’ 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, respectively.