Example of spiritual and traditional providers active in Sierra Leone and their practices and functions
| Type of spiritual and traditional provider | Provider practice | Function |
| Pepper doctor | Offers medication for condition | Principally offers biomedical treatment |
| Herbalist | Offers diagnosis of the condition and herbal-based treatments (eg, lotions) | Limited biomedical element (eg, lotion) and distinguishable diagnostic and treatment step, traditional healer |
| Moray man and/or alpha man | Diagnosis includes religious elements of care, recitation of incantations (eg, alpha man uses Koran during practice) and additionally may offer non-conventional ‘medicine’ or potential referrals to other providers | Moderate biomedical element of care and distinguishable diagnosis, treatment and referral steps; spiritual and traditional healer |
| Church or mosque | Offer prayer and gives you blessed water and oil to rub | No biomedical elements, completely spiritual |
| Yabai woman (soothsayer) | Consults the person and determines who cast a spell on them, bewitches the spell-caster | No biomedical elements, completely spiritual |