Chistre

Hey there,
Giving Tuesday is here, and I want to share something simple but important.
For more than 20 years, CHISTRE has been showing up in rural communities where healthcare is out of reach. From HIV education to TB case finding to viral hepatitis screening, our team has helped more than 500,000 people get the support they need.
This year alone, we screened over 25,000 people for hepatitis across six states, identified thousands of TB cases in hard-to-reach villages, trained teachers and youth, and supported families who had nowhere else to turn.
This work started in Mgbala Agwa with a small group of young people determined to save their community. Today, it’s a national effort improving health access for those who are often forgotten.
On this Giving Tuesday, you can help us keep going.
Your support helps us reach more villages, train more frontline workers, and protect more lives.
If you’d like to give, here’s the link:
https://goto.gg/68113
Every contribution moves this mission forward.

Support Vulnerable Women and Children in Need This project aims to provide vital medical, psychosocial, and nutritional support to vulnerable women suffering from HIV, TB, and other health challenges in the remote areas of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Many women in these communities face compounded issues such as health crises, social stigma, abandon...

Before the Cough Ends — Our Story from Rural Bauchi

Being featured on the MiniXray blog was not only a privilege — it was a testament to the life-saving impact of the modern diagnostic system we now carry with us into Nigeria’s most remote corners. MiniXray didn’t just provide us a machine; it empowered us with a tool of transformation in our fight against tuberculosis.

In the quiet village of Ningi, Bauchi State, the early morning silence is often broken by the harsh, dry cough of those gripped by more than a common illness. Among them was 37-year-old Aisha, a mother of three, whose life slowly faded before her family’s eyes.

Her husband believed it was just a fever. The local chemist tried herbs and antibiotics. Days turned into weeks, and her weight dropped drastically. By the second month, she was coughing blood. Still, there was no diagnosis, no testing — and no hope. The nearest facility with a functional diagnostic lab was over 30 kilometers away, far beyond reach for a family that lived hand-to-mouth. When the diagnosis finally came, it was too late. Aisha died at home — in pain, in silence — like so many others before her.

She never knew what took her life. Her children still cry for her in the night, too young to understand what happened.

In too many rural communities, lives are lost not because TB is untreatable, but because it goes undiagnosed — hidden in plain sight. The long delays in detection, absence of labs, and inaccessible transportation make tuberculosis a deadly ghost in the community.

But then came MiniXray.

Compact, mobile, and operable even without grid power, the MiniXray system changed everything. With it, we can now reach communities like Ningi that were once out of the diagnostic map. We no longer wait for the disease to announce itself in blood and death — we find it early. We act fast.

CHISTRE is now detecting TB in time — and saving lives.

In nearby Ganjuwa, 19-year-old Fatima is alive today because of this innovation. Her TB was detected during a community outreach using the MiniXray unit. Her lungs were already compromised, but she began treatment immediately. Weeks later, she is gaining weight. Her cough is easing. She is recovering — and she is dreaming again.y

MiniXray has become more than a machine — it is a lifeline. It has allowed us to break the chains of delayed diagnosis. What used to take weeks or months now takes minutes. What used to mean another death now means another life saved.

In a region where TB used to be a silent death sentence, hope now travels on four wheels — carried by a determined team and a machine that sees what the eyes cannot.

MiniXray is the game changer.

Now, more people live. More people breathe. More people dream again.

🔗 [Read our original testimonial on MiniXray's blog](https://www.minxray.com/post/testimonials-from-the-field-nduka-ozor-on-using-the-impact-system-in-bauchi-state-nigeria)