A US government map mislabeled every African country during a State Department presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The map, produced with OpenAI tools and shown midway through remarks on new health agreements, placed Nigeria as landlocked in the Sahara, relocated Mozambique to the Horn of Africa, and transposed Côte d’Ivoire. The State Department accepted responsibility for the error created by a staffer’s last-minute slide change.