Posted on July - 13 - 2011
Home Sick Home? Architect Goes After Tuberculosis In Haiti
When it comes to beating tuberculosis, the focus is usually on better drugs and tests and, maybe someday, a vaccine. But what about building better homes for people at risk of catching the infection?
That’s what Peter Williams, a Jamaican-born architect and a visiting scholar in the Healthy Infrastructure Research Centre at the University College London, is doing with a little group he founded called ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments). The New York-based nonprofit wants to use one basic need housing to help satisfy another health.
Williams has worked all over the world, and he’s seen a lot of overcrowded slums in his day places where TB bacteria, which travel by air, can have a field day, jumping from person to person in tight, badly ventilated spaces. Good ventilation, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is the most important way to prevent TB transmission anywhere.
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