WHO WE ARE

CVR is a scientific base research organisation tailored to mitigate the most feared Poisonous SnakeBites (PSB). The idea about CVR and Anti- Snake venom research using medicinal plants used by traditional medicinal practioners (TMP) for treatment of PSB started when people who were kept at detainee camps due Lord resistant army (LRA) were released to go to their former respective busy home state. Everybody including children suffered PSB during clearing and collecting building material for home contraction. Report from Gulu regional referral hospital says that a minimum of 5 cases of snake per week brought to the hospital and some die before reaching the hospital that was (6.3%) had snakebites distributed throughout the year (Wangoda et al., 2004). Snakebite is an occupational, environmental, and domestic health hazard that exacerbates the already impoverished state of local communities. The World Health Organization has classified snakebites as one of the most Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in terms of incidence, severity, and its clinical characteristics. This has served as a basis for its advocacy (WHO, 2010). The World Health Organization (WHO) once again recognized in June 9th 2017 the burden of snake bite envenomation and then enlisted it in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) under category (Chippaux, 2017; WHO, 2010). Due to high cost of production of snake anti-venom, anti-venom are limited and very expensive and yet one and a half million people are poisoned by venomous snakes per year in Sub-Saharan Africa (Rettner, 2011). Medicinal plants are being used for treatment of snakebites by herbalist since memorial times but there are few medicinal plants and their mode of treatments have been documented. Traditional medicine practitioners in Uganda are dying with the information without passing the knowledge for continuous remedy of snakebite treatment. Up to date there is no proper herbal formulations with known efficacy in relation to remedial measure against snakebites (Rita et al., 2011). Acute Toxicities, anti-venom potential activities and chemical constituents of the plants used for treatment of snakebites are not known.