Medicinal plants used for treatment of malaria by indigenous communities of Tororo District, Eastern Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria remains the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Although recent developments such as malaria vaccine trials inspire optimism, the search for novel antimalarial drugs is urgently needed to control the mounting resistance of Plasmodium species to the available therapies. The present study was conducted to document ethnobotanical knowledge on the plants used to treat symptoms of malaria in Tororo district, a malaria-endemic region of Eastern Uganda.

Methods

An ethnobotanical study was carried out between February 2020 and September 2020 in 12 randomly selected villages of Tororo district. In total, 151 respondents (21 herbalists and 130 non-herbalists) were selected using multistage random sampling method. Their awareness of malaria, treatment-seeki

SUBMITTER: Tabuti JRS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10258082 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature