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Thursday, April 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local i 4 lull -TCNfW )0t stood on at; the godolik of the hie nd states ia od Tefeneiti es that Alls let. rom theta , Nut, and ieb gavei 1 Seth, Isis is to create ie Student’s model provides place for AIDS victims to die in peace By Tracy Staton Reporter Designing a hospital for AIDS patients presented an atypical challenge to Texas A&M student David Liao. “Most hospitals are places to get well, but an AIDS hospital is a place to die,” Liao said. “Since curing is impossible, I had to emphasize the caring.” Liao’s concern for the unique problems of people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome spurred him to design a facility solely for patients with the dis ease. This project —————— is Liao’s final study for a master’s de gree in ar chitecture. “No hospital has been built especially for AIDS p a - tients,” Liao said. “Existing facilities have been remod- eled to accom modate them, but those facilities cannot completely satisfy their needs.” He approached the project with the intention of creating a home-like atmosphere in the hospital. Each patient’s room also has space for one family mem ber, so relatives can spend active, productive time with the patient. Liao said that this opportunity helps alleviate the feeling of iso lation patients usually experi ence. “I wanted to put the facility on a human scale,” he said. “I broke the hospital into several different buildings, all with easy access to nature.” Nature played an important role in Liao’s design. He chose a heavily wooded site overlooking Lake Austin, and the hospital was integrated with the environ ment. Interior gardens and natural lighting also contribute to the de sign. T wanted to avoid a feeling of confinement or abandonment for the patient,” Liao said. “My design lightens the ‘institutional image’ to create a pleasant atmo sphere.” Liao, whose specialization is in “Most hospitals are places to get well, but an AIDS hospital is a place to die. ... I had to emphasize the caring. ” — David Liao, graduate student and AIDS hospital designer health facili ties, has expe rience working with institu tions. The semes ter-long pro ject involved intense re search. Liao traveled to New York in December to meet with Dr. Gerald H . Friedland, his medical consultant for the design. Friedland is the leader of an AIDS care team at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City and was featured on the cover of Newsweek in .I Li, y- In the Newsweek interview, Friedland said that renovating hospitals is a more feasible op tion than constructing an entirely new facility for AIDS patients. He cited maintenance expenses and escalating salaries as reasons that no institute would want to build a new hospital. Through his research, Liao found that isolating AIDS pa tients can reduce in-patient costs by streamlining care. He also dis- Photo by Tracy Staton David Liao, a Texas A&M graduate student in architecture, sets up a model of the hospital he designed to serve AIDS patients. covered certain difficulties inher ent in dealing with these patients, such as some of the staff experi encing emotional problems. He addressed these problems in his design by creating retreat areas so the staff can escape from depressing situations. He also noted that in some hospitals, AIDS patients are ac cepted only if they meet the hos pital’s research needs. 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BUCHANAN, JR Chairman of People for the American Way Censorship Speaker says AIDS far more serious than ifs portrayed By Robert Morris Staff Writer Contrary to popular belief, a Texas A&M biochemistry professor said Wednesday, AIDS is far more serious than the media portrays it. Dr. Jim Wild, in a lecture spon sored by the Wesley Foundation, also said the disease is more serious than AlDS-education organizations are willing to tell the public. He said there are some facts the public has not yet acknowledged about the disease because of a lack of accurate information. “Basically, we have several health care communities in the United States and they are not letting us know the totality of the problem as it is beginning to appear,” he said. He said the main parts of that mis understanding center on the incuba tion and transmission of the disease. “There is a 10- to 15-year incuba tion period from the time a person becomes infected and the time symptoms begin to show up,” Wild said. “If you have had a blood trans fusion within the last eight years, you need to go get checked for AIDS. “In the U.S. it is estimated that 1.5 million people are AIDS carriers. The worst-case scenario would as sume that all those people will even tually have AIDS.” The number of people who actu ally have the disease is estimated to be around 43,000, and that number is growing every month. Wild said. “The really frightening thing is that over half of those people have died already and no one who has AIDS has ever been cured,” he said. Transmission of AIDS, or ac quired immune deficiency syndrome often is misunderstood by the gen eral public. “The first thing that we heard was that it could only be transmitted by the movement of seminal fluids be tween people, basically males in ho mosexual types of relationships,” Wild said. “Now we’re finding out that in some cases it can be trans- mitted in heterosexual relationships.” Houston woman gets life for helping murder parents HOUSTON (AP) — A woman convicted of helping her former boyfriend kill her sleeping parents was sentenced Wednesday to two concurrent life prison terms. Cynthia Campbell Ray, 30, was convicted Tuesday of two counts of murder for convincing David Duval West to kill her parents in their Houston home on June 19, 1982. Jurors in State District Judge A.D. Azios’ court reconvened Wednesday in the trial’s punishment phase and deliberated three hours before rec ommending the two concurrent life terms, a sentence Azios then insti tuted. 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