In Kisumu, there are huge Target / Wal-mart-like department stores where you can buy most common modern household items (except your personal meds, glasses, contacts, modern electronics), so don't panic if you've left something at home. They are in Kisumu: Nakumatt, Ukwala, Tusky's... but not in Suba, so buy your wares before leaving for Suba if you're going there.
In addition to the usual stuff, here's what you can bring particularly for the rotation/FACES:
-laptop so you can do your work, develop PowerPoints, and get online without competing for a FACES computer while you're there
-your own equipment: stethoscope (for sure), pen light, reflex hammer, pocket hand sanitizer (it's really hard to find clean water to wash your hands with regularly); consider bringing an otoscope/opthalmoscope to donate
-donations: Sanford's HIV handbook, pharmacopias, stethoscopes, pulse ox (finger machines), otoscopes/opthalmoscopes, HIV textbooks - check in with Kimberly Bale on which ones they might have to bring, hand sanitizer, PDAs, digital cameras, white coats
Download a possible trip packing list here (this is one i developed generically for all of my trips abroad but is applicable especially to trips such as this):
KEMRI FACES building
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