[from SHOTS, NPR's Health Blog]

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.