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Design Framework for Health Facilities Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy MASS Design Group Download link www.scribd.com Video Link A tragic example of poor health facility architecture occurred in 2005, when Extremely Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) was discovered in a hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. Of the 53 original cases of XDR TB, none survived. 67 percent of those infected had been recently hospitalized at the Tugela Ferry clinic and at closer inspection it became clear that the hospital's poor design had helped to transmit this airborne disease. The Design Framework for Health Facilities is an on-line tool designed to gather resources from a cross-disciplinary field of problems solvers and confront this crisis of inappropriate health facility design. Developed as an interactive program, the Framework will be a resource for architects and health care providers to better understand and develop strategies to resist tragedies like that in Tegula Ferry and to aid in the creation of contextually relevant facilities in resource constrained settings. The framework, developed with the support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, will also be a forum for medical workers to learn from a forum of architects, planners, doctors, nurses, patients, policy makers, and epidemiologists. This could have potentially profound effects ...