The experts at About.com’s AIDS & HIV section listed their best charities of the year, just in time for the holiday giving season.

As Dennis Sifris, MD, and James Myhre explain in their introduction, thanks to changes in the global AIDS strategy, with increased investments, we can turn the epidemic around and reverse the adult infection rate nationally and abroad.

Charities on this year’s list had to meet certain criteria. For example, they had to spend at least 70 percent of their cash budget on bona fide programs and they had to raise $100 for every $15 spent fundraising. However, the authors write, “we have taken a somewhat more subjective viewpoint this year, highlighting those charities which define the domestic and global strategy moving forward. These include organizations that advocate for communities-at-risk, as well as those actively involved in testing, treatment, prevention and research.”

The About.com article includes details about each group, but here are the names of their top 20 HIV charities of 2015:

  • amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

  • mothers2mothers

  • Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation

  • Project Inform

  • Sero Project

  • Love Heals

  • Housing Works

  • Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

  • Elton John AIDS Foundation

  • Firelight Foundation

  • AIDS Foundation of Chicago

  • AIDS Project Los Angeles

  • Cascade AIDS Project

  • The Damien Center

  • Desert AIDS Project

  • Gay Men’s Health Crisis

  • NO/AIDS Task Force

  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation

  • Whitman-Walker Health