The report urges immediate action to curb the destruction by farmers and loggers of forests in which primates dwell, and end the trade in bushmeat and exotic medicines from animal parts.
The other distinction is that traditional healers use herbs, plants and some animal skin in the muthi (medicines), whereas witch doctors are said to also use human body parts, meaning they are sometimes implicated in murders.
In fact, Arena last week withdrew its application to market Belvia in Europe after the European Medicines Agency pointed to potential cardiovascular risks and tumors found in animal studies.