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Look, shiny.

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Doing Sunday a day early. #caturday #weekend #workworkworkworkwork

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Pretty efficient one-stop shopping. #Nairobi #ManStuff (at Nairobi, Kenya)

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Monkeys in your parking garage > rats in your trash room. At least one way Nairobi beats New York (although I suppose winning the vermin category is not such a sweet victory). #Nairobi #Kenya #monkey #pests 🐵🙈🙉🙊🐒 (at Nairobi, Kenya)

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Universal truths are rare, but at least in my experience, one of them is that community health workers (midwives, nurses, peer educators) are some of the baddest broads in any country. This is Veronica, who distributes HIV self-tests to eight villages with more than 100 households each in Malawi, and teaches people how to use the the tests and how to link into the formal health care system if they're positive. In her backpack are testing kits, demos, instruction manuals, and cards with the local clinic's information. In her belly is a baby due next month -- at eighth months pregnant, Veronica has spent most of June walking through rural communities, knocking on doors and encouraging people to test themselves. #Malawi #psiimpact #unitaid #hiv #health #badbitchalert

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Goodbye beautiful Malawi. You certainly live up to your "warm heart of Africa" reputation. Hope to see you again very soon. #Malawi #travel #beauty #sunset #favoriteplaces

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A man looks at the results of his at-home HIV self-test outside of Blantyre, Malawi. The self-test, where you swab your gums and then wait 20 minutes for the results to develop in a liquid vial, could be a game-changer for men in particular: they're less likely to seek care when they feel sick, may prefer seeing their test results privately, and unlike women aren't routinely tested for HIV during pregnancy. (This man took the test with his wife and the aid of a community health worker; both partners were negative). #Malawi #Blantyre #PSI #health #STAR #unitaid @psiimpact

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They don't make sunsets like this everywhere. #Malawi #OnAssignment #sunset #travel #beauty

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Veronica, a community based distribution agent, brings at-home HIV tests to households in a village about an hour outside of Blantyre, Malawi. As part of the STAR at-home testing program, she teaches people how to swab their gums and use the kit to find out privately whether they're HIV-positive or negative. The closest health center is an hours-long walk away, and so while women are often tested when they have children, men routinely go untested. Bringing tests to them means they're more likely to find out their status and, if positive, seek treatment. #Malawi #STAR #unitaid #PSI #health

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Ain't no sky like a Malawi sky (because a Malawi sky don't stop). #Malawi #nofilter #travel #beauty #sunset

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Ok Malawi, let's do this thing. #Malawi #STAR #OnAssignment #PressPass #newnotebook

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Cat Dad of the Year @tymccormick5 spent a few days in Brooklyn, came home and crafted his own bespoke Kitty Bjorn. #CatDad #Pete #cats #catstagram #catsofinstagram #nairobi #DIY #bespoke #ootd #menswear #fashion #brooklynstyle #nairobistyle #fathersday (at Nairobi, Kenya)

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Goodbye beautiful. Brooklyn #newyork #sunset #ontheroad

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Baghdad, 'Bama, or Brooklyn? #arms #freedom #merca #2a #OrJustNerds

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Celebrating the fact that @tymccormick5 somehow survived 29 years on this planet, the New York way. #Brooklyn #newyork #bagel #coffee #breakfast #glutenbomb

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Seattle I ❤️ you. #leftbankbooks #dontstealthisbook #seattle (at Left Bank Books Collective)

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#Seattle workspace as it drizzles outside. #home #coffee #macaron #freelance (at Pike Place Market)

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"Gay bars are therapy for people who can't afford therapy; temples for people who lost their religion, or whose religion lost them; vacations for people who can't go on vacation; homes for folk without families; sanctuaries against aggression. They take sound and fabric and flesh from the ordinary world, and under cover of darkness and the influence of alcohol or drugs, transform it all into something that scrapes up against utopia." -@richardkimnyc ( 📷: #mapplethorpe)