Bio-diversity

The Allada-Z - Toffo area contains a multitude of neighborhoods pr caires filled sustainable sanitation (trash res nag m, waters us es and d a syst me inad quat for stormwater drainage). Environmental diseases risk factors (diseases rotovirus IC, fi poor, malaria applied,..) there are therefore very important. This table d sad j became darker with l av AIDS event. R region has natural resources and d a biodiversity including upgrading remains a major challenge for the future. In effect, rapid d afforestation of the area and the overexploitation of the environment lead rar faction of some plants used in the pharmacop es. In addition, knowledge often are used locally and more rarely transmitted to the new g n ration. By cons therefore, when a traditional practitioner of the area died, acquaintances disappear d definitively with him. The traditional medicine m is the first use of the care for people who otherwise hardly has access to the system I m quality medicines and public health. M medicinal plants constitute the essential of the mati re m herb special especially in area L sustainable use of these resources is today hui rative imp has become a priority and n need pr server flora and control ler her use. The submitted project d support to traditional healers for the production and the preservation of plants m herbs menac pr d extinction and promotion of the pharmacop local aims stop d gradation environmental, economic and health. It int gre a set of field activities relating to: (i) the strengthening of the capabilities of the Centre for research and development endog does sustainable House l hope, which will house the project, (ii) the preservation of the esp pr these m existing herbs, restoration or strengthening those missing menac es d extinction and whose tus v are used are in the treatment of HIV/AIDS (opportunistic) diseases and malaria; (iii) the upgrading of the knowledge of traditional healers, the promotion of the pharmacop es local and insertion of the young scolaris s l in the re fili. Actions will be men with the active participation of the populations so qu they act d they-m my problems facing my sanitary, ecological and socio - economic; then, they become actresses of their development. In doing so, the project is participatory and sustainable.

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