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International Medical Corps
Director of Global Communications for International Medical Corps, one of the groups with a team on the ground in the Philippines
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Margaret Aguirre
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FROM Margaret Aguirre
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The Race to Provide Typhoon Relief Aid to the Philippines In the Philippines, the estimated death toll from Typhoon Haiyan has been reduced from 10,000 to roughly 2,000, but the humanitarian crisis is enormous and aid groups are facing major challenges. We get updates from Margaret Aguirre, who's in Santa Monica with the International Medical Corps , and Steven Rood, the Asia Foundation 's representative for the Philippines, who joins us from Manila.
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