Over 2,200 mothers simultaneously nursed their children in Manila on Sunday as part of a campaign to take away the stigma of breastfeeding in public.

Mothers breastfed their infants for over a minute in a campaign called "Hakab Na", which means "to latch on".

A 2011 Family Health survey by the National Statistics Authority said over 92 percent of children in the Philippines between six to 35 months had been breastfed at some point, with 27% exclusively breastfed. The survey was conducted across 53,000 households in the country.

World Breastfeeding Week is an annual global initiative running from August 1-7.

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