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Modore, who suffers from tuberculosis, at his home in Vihiga County, Kenya. — Brian Otieno/The New York Times

DALVIN Modore walked gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched as if bracing for pain.

His trousers hung loose, barely staying up as he shuffled around his small farm in western Kenya.

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