The average life expectancy in most developing countries is 63 years mainly due to infant mortality and lack of management of chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes and many others. On frequent trips to Africa and other developing countries during the project, he realized that most drugs commonly used to manage these chronic conditions were either unavailable, substandard or very costly and unaffordable due to inefficiency in supply chain, lack of inventory management or unscrupulous middle men price hikes.