Global response to Ebola is falling short, UN and WHO say
UN and WHO say the global effort to contain outbreak has been significant, but they call for even more money, equipment and coordination
Governments have pledged millions of dollars of aid, volunteer medics are signing up to work on the front line and individuals are digging deep, but with the Ebola death toll relentlessly rising, the biggest donors are increasingly calling on other countries to step up their efforts.
While there has so far been no "naming and shaming" of countries deemed to be dragging their feet, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on the world to do more.
Obama, who cancelled a scheduled trip to Rhode Island and New York yesterday to remain at the White House and monitor the government's Ebola response, urged his counterparts from Britain, France, Germany and Italy to better coordinate plans to combat the outbreak.
The UN Security Council urged the world community to "accelerate and dramatically expand" aid to the West African countries battling the epidemic.
The World Health Organisation warned this week that the infection rate could reach 10,000 a week by early December in a worst-case scenario.
"Leaders agreed that this was the most serious international public health emergency in recent years and that the international community needed to do much more and faster," British Prime Minister David Cameron's office said.