In Sub-Saharan Africa, the ratio of traditional healers to the general population is approximately 1:500, while doctors trained in “Western” medicine have a 1:40000 ratio to the rest of the population [1]. It is estimated that approximately 70% to 80% of the population in SubSaharan Africa uses the services of Traditional Health Practitioners (THP) [2]. Many developing countries have a pluralistic healthcare system wherein a modernised Ù½rst world medical system co-exists with a variety of non-conventional health care systems such as local indigenous systems founded on traditional beliefs and practices