This paper uses the results of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Comoros Union to reflect upon some of the effects of the Chinese-led malaria elimination program implemented in the country from 2007-2015. The key research questions guiding this paper are: 1) How is the medication distributed by the program framed and understood? 2) What kind of alternative meanings and future does the Chinese approach to global health offer to individuals living within a post-colonial sub-Saharan African context? These questions are framed within salient perceptions about "natural" and "artificial" healing that were captured by this research.