Mandates

1. Traditional medicines: Rationalization of traditional medicines in collaboration with traditional healers; evaluation of plant drugs using medicinal phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology; formulation of herbal remedies; antiparasitic agents of plant origin.

2. Socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of traditional medicine.

3. Drugs: experimental pharmacology and toxicology; biopharmaceutics and relevant pharmacokinetics; clinical trials.

4. Agents for the control and management of HIV/AIDS/STI Quality assurance of drugs: quality control and surveillance