The US State Department acknowledged "an unfortunate error" on Thursday after an inaccurate map of Africa was displayed at an AIDS conference in Brazil earlier this week.

A U.S. State Department presentation at a major global health conference has sparked criticism after an AI-generated map of Africa wrongly labelled every country on the continent.

The State Department embarrassed all of America at an international conference.

US state department map error appeared at Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro