A senior health official with the State Department presenting at an international AIDS conference in Brazil used a map of Africa to illustrate U.S. government funding for HIV programs on the continent. There was only one problem. The map incorrectly identified several African countries.

nyti.msU.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS ConferenceNigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”