Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently appointed Dr. Massouda Jalal, director of the Afghan Public Relief Organization, to his cabinet as the minister of women's affairs. The Global Fund awarded Dr. Jalal, who was the sole female candidate in the Afghan presidential elections, a $3,000 grant last year to organize a conference on expanding women's civic and political participation in the restructuring of Afghanistan, and the implementation of human rights for Afghan women.