Today is HIV Vaccine Awareness Day! IAVI and CNS bring to you a very special podcast, Lessons Learnt: What the COVID-19 experience in India can teach us about HIV vaccine research, delivery and access, where three experts discuss the past, present and future of HIV research in the current COVID context, and the implications of this research on scientific and clinical practice, and community participation. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, PodAlong, and other podcast streaming platforms. Moderated by Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor of CNS, the discussion includes Dr. Rajat Goyal, Country Director, IAVI-India, Dr. Aqsa Shaikh, Associate Professor of Community Medicine at the Hamdard Institute of Medical Science and Research (HIMSAR), and the chief nodal officer of the COVID-19 vaccination centre at Jamia Hamdard in New Delhi, and, finally, Shruta Rawat, Research Manager at Humsafar Trust, one of India’s oldest and largest LGBTQ+ organizations. We hope you enjoy this rich conversation!