Numerous public health agencies, including the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, have stated that decriminalizing sex work is one of the most important policy shifts necessary to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). When sex work is illegal, police often use condoms in a wallet as evidence of sex work, preventing some people from wanting to carry them in large numbers, even from the store to home. Also, as stigma is reduced, using and carrying condoms is known to increase (The Lancet).