Saturday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, and on Friday night, November 30, the New York City Event for World AIDS Day will take place at St. Bartholomew’s Church at Park Avenue at 50th Street, from 6:30 to 8:30pm. The event — cosponsored by The Hunger Project, a New York based nonprofit that Cosimo partnered with to publish the book The Power of Purpose Awards — will feature United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon; U.S. ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke; the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria; and dancers, musicians, and AIDS activists. The evening will be emceed by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.

For more information, please visit aidsdaynyc.org.

The Power of Purpose Awards is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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