The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Board recently made several decisions that will affect the future of the organization, including appointing former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Mark Dybul as executive director and adopting a new funding model, Nature reports in an article examining the history and future of the Fund. "It has been a rough couple of years for the Global Fund," but "[l]ast week's appointment of Mark Dybul as executive director could signal a fresh start, and has been broadly welcomed," Nature writes (Butler, 11/22). "As [Dybul] begins his four-year term in early February 2013, current Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo will transition out of his position," PlusNews reports, noting, "That position, created to guide the Fund through reforms proposed by a 2011 high-level review panel at a time of low donor confidence, will disappear."