Liberia's President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
In a "letter to the world" broadcast on BBC World Service, she said the disease "respects no borders", and that every country had to do all it could to help fight it. President Johnson Sirleaf added that a generation of Africans were at risk of "being lost to economic catastrophe".
The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people across West Africa, including 2,200 in Liberia. International donations have so far fallen well short of the amounts requested by UN agencies and aid organizations.
In the worst-affected countries - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - about 9,000 people have been found to have the Ebola virus, which kills an estimated 70% of those infected.
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